The Eurasian bittern, a secretive British wetland bird, announces its presence with a distinctive low-frequency 'boom' during ...

The American Bittern’s “pumper-lunk” call has got to be one of the strangest sounds I have ever heard. When I first heard it, I thought the sound was coming from some kind of oddball frog, but when I ...

“I was going out to Interlaken to put a recorder out because, in previous years, they had been heard out there,” he said. “The site I wanted to get to, I couldn’t, for various reasons. I was driving ...

Experts celebrate discovery of secretive and endangered Australasian bittern in recently restored wetlands The “bunyip bird” – named after a mythological river-lurking, human-eating monster – is as ...